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  • Looking for fellow Google+ OSR / indie RPG folks

    From MrRogers@mrrogersmaddenfilmroom@gmail.com to rec.games.frp.dnd on Sun Feb 22 02:00:16 2026
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    Hi all,

    This may be a bit of a message in a bottle.

    I was a active lurker in the OSR and indie RPG design circles on
    Google+ back in the day,
    and like many others I migrated when G+ shut down. I went to MeWe
    initially,
    but left not long after, and as a result I lost touch with a lot of
    people IrCOd
    been regularly following.

    Lately IrCOve been trying to reconnect with that older OSR / DIY /
    small-press
    design crowd, the folks who were sharing drafts, blogs, odd mechanics,
    and
    half-finished games in comment threads, and IrCOm wondering who, if
    anyone,
    from that Google+ diaspora is still around here.

    If you were part of that scene and are still reading, IrCOd be glad to
    say hello again. No big agenda, no attempt to recreate G+ (that ship
    has sailed),
    just looking to re-establish a few conversations.

    Thanks for indulging the nostalgia,
    --
    "'Twas in the static that I was born, a phantom of the pixelated
    plains." - Mr. Rogers.

    I've been using Mr. Rogers as my Gamer Tag since the Xbox came out in
    2001 while playing Halo with my Army buddies in the Barracks.
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to rec.games.frp.dnd on Mon Feb 23 16:01:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.games.frp.dnd

    On 2/22/2026 12:00 AM, MrRogers wrote:
    Hi all,

    This may be a bit of a message in a bottle.

    I was a active lurker in the OSR and indie RPG design circles on Google+ back in the day,
    and like many others I migrated when G+ shut down. I went to MeWe
    initially,
    but left not long after, and as a result I lost touch with a lot of
    people IrCOd
    been regularly following.

    Lately IrCOve been trying to reconnect with that older OSR / DIY / small- press
    design crowd, the folks who were sharing drafts, blogs, odd mechanics, and half-finished games in comment threads, and IrCOm wondering who, if anyone, from that Google+ diaspora is still around here.

    If you were part of that scene and are still reading, IrCOd be glad to
    say hello again. No big agenda, no attempt to recreate G+ (that ship has sailed),
    just looking to re-establish a few conversations.

    Thanks for indulging the nostalgia,


    Unfortunately I found it fairly near the end. G+ was far superior to
    reddit etc. in many niche areas like that, just as usenet was in it's
    hayday.

    I put a lot of my stuff on my web page/blog: https://sites.google.com/site/justisaursdd/

    This reddit has a lot of similar design stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGdesign/
    --
    -Justisaur

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